Re: learning programming
> PS: Really not wanting to start a flamewar here...
Could have fooled me!
--- "Jürgen_A._Erhard" <jae@jerhard.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Rein <trein@umich.edu> writes:
>
> Tony> On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 18:26, Mr. Jan
> Hearthstone wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> But let's suppose that I want to learn
> programming
> >> (perhaps to compile kernels, etc.) - what
> would be a
> >> good start? Symbolic logic? (Where to get a
> good
> >> instruction on that one?) C++? ... Slip? What
> language
> >> is the one most widely used for Linux?
> >> Thnx, Hrthstn.
> >>
> >>
>
> Tony> As others have pointed out, you do not
> need to be a
> Tony> programmer to configure and compile the
> Linux kernel. You
> Tony> don't even have to be able to read source
> code. Go to
> Tony> http://debian.org and follow the
> documentation links.
>
> Tony> If you want to learn programming, Perl is
> a fun language.
>
> Correction: If you want to learn programming, Perl
> is the *wrong*
> language.
>
> Take a look at Python.
>
> (Someone mentioned Bruce Eckel's books
> (www.mindview.com) on C++ and
> Java... incidentially, Bruce is a *huge* fan of
> Python :-)
>
> Bye, J
>
> PS: Really not wanting to start a flamewar here...
> but "Python is
> executable pseudocode, Perl is executable
> line-noise". ;-)
>
> --
> Jürgen A. Erhard (juergen.erhard@gmx.net,
> jae@users.sf.net)
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